When Alexandra Vasilia Voyatzakis first saw Pontus Mikael Henriksson on the dating app Bumble in the summer of 2018, she did not swipe right, but not because he wasn’t her type. (He definitely was.)
“I distinctly remember seeing his face,” said Ms. Voyatzakis, noting that she had found him attractive. But she was also worried. She had an unfortunate dating history when it came to dating handsome men, which her friends often referred to as “model-y types,” she said. Those relationships always failed.
But when she saw Mr. Henriksson appear in her search again in early January 2019, she decided to give him a swipe. The two matched that very same day.
“I remember thinking that she was absolutely gorgeous, but I was intimated,” Mr. Henriksson said. “She had this attitude. But then we matched and we messaged and I was like, ‘This girl is so sweet.’ We started messaging all the time.”
Five days later, they spoke on the phone for the first time. “The second I heard her voice, I was like, ‘wow, this is something,’” Mr. Henriksson said.
In mid-January 2019, they went on their first date, which was drinks at Primo’s in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood. “We only had two drinks each, and yet sat there talking for five hours,” Ms. Voyatzakis said. “We didn’t want it to end.”
